WAUKESHA, WISCONSIN - A Wisconsin appeals court effectively struck down numerous municipal ordinances that have slowed the development of wind energy, lawyers said. Local governments cannot pass broad ...

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - First Solar Inc outshined rivals in the struggling solar power industry with earnings and revenue that blew past Wall Street estimates and sent its shares up more than 13 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - At the G-8 summit of world leaders in June, President Bush repeated his calls for developing nations to curb their emissions of greenhouse gases. Without their cooperation, he said, ...

ARIZONA - The largest solar electric generating plant in the United States could be built in Arizona under a plan announced ...

PARIS, FRANCE - EDF Energies Nouvelles continues its expansion programme in the United States with orders for 75 wind turbines for 2008. This new order follows a series of orders undertaken for the ...

CHATSWORTH, CALIFORNIA - Pentadyne Power Corporation, a world leader in flywheel energy storage systems, announced that the Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York will use Pentadyne as the ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - With national attention focused on President Obama's troubled health care reform efforts, we can't afford to take our eyes off his other flawed and costly priority — "cap and trade ...

BULGARIA - A joint venture of German electrical and engineering group Siemens will invest 440 million levs US $297.7 million to build a 140 megawatt wind power farm in Bulgaria, the energy ministry ...

TOKYO, JAPAN - One of the worlds leading ultra heavy forgings manufacturers, Japan Steel Works Limited JSW recently completed the first phase of the expansions that the company began planning in 2008 ...

PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY - The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) issued a statement in reference to cyber security and the electric grid, stating that they were unaware of any ...

ROSEMEAD, CALIFORNIA - Southern California Edison (SCE) signed a 20-year contract with DCE, an affiliate of Caithness Energy, which will provide up to 909 megawatts of wind power. Developers say that ...

NEW YORK, LONDON - MeettheBoss, originally focused on the financial services sector, has launched a new section dedicated to the utilities industry. The secure platform that MeettheBoss provided for ...